Truman B. Ransom

Truman B. Ransom (20 September 1802-13 September 1847) was a US Army colonel who was killed at the Battle of Chapultepec during the Mexican-American War.

Biography
Truman B. Ransom was born in Woodstock, Vermont in 1802, and he worked as a teacher before becoming Vice President of Norwich University in 1835 and President in 1844. During the 1830s, he rose to the rank of Major-General in the state militia. He launched a failed Democratic bid for the US House of Representatives in 1840 and 1843 and for Lieutenant Governor in 1846, and he went on to serve in the Mexican-American War as a US Army colonel. On 13 September 1847, he was shot through the stomach and killed while storming the Mexican Army defenses at the Battle of Chapultepec. His son Thomas E.B. Ransom would serve in the American Civil War as a Union general.